Younger Days
This is Errol Melbourne A.K.A Tama.
Specialist in the creation of Reggae Music.
Alongside working at Tamo Music Productions, Errol’s main musical profession is drumming.
Errol was born in West Bromwich, Birmingham, England.
Errol’s passion for drumming stems back to as far as he can remember. His earliest recollections of making drum beats takes him back to the age of 5 where any surface in his vicinity would be transformed into various parts of a drum-kit. Dust bin lids, pots, pans, boxes all came together to produce a procession of sounds, this of course was displeasure and discomfort to his grand-parents.

At the age of 12 his Grand Father retired following an accident which caused him to lose the sight in his left eye, this helped him make the decision to return to Jamaica and take his family with him. On arrival in Jamaica Errol attended Constant Spring All Age School. After leaving the All Age School, he attended Kingston Technical College, downtown.
During his time at Kingston Technical College he had a friend called Peter Dread who loved singing and playing the guitar. They both wanted to do something musical so 1976 they went to visits Ras Michael and the sons of Negus this was because at the time Errol strongly followed the Rasta beliefs. He went to Ras Michael to seek advice at Three Mile where he lived at the time. Errol and Peter met with him but to no prevail he wasn't looking for any drummers or guitarists at that time, however he did advise them to keep trying to achieve their goals in playing music.

Inspiration
Growing up there were plenty of places for Errol to draw inspiration from enabling him to home his skills and search out the sounds he wanted to replicate.
Listening to music of all genres brought to his attention legendary musicians such as 'Billy Cobham' 'Lenny White of Chick Corea and 'Lloyd Knibb of the Skatalites' who inspired him to purchase his first real drum kit at the age of 19.
Work History
Errol returned to England in 1977.
He couldn't find any work in Birmingham as a drummer so he resorted to becoming a sales rep. In 1978 Errol was taken to London by Winston of Summit Records in Birmingham to meet Mr Palmer at Jet Star who then took him to Lloyd Coxson from Coxson Sound Sytem. Lloyd Coxson then took him to Goosebury Studio, Gerard Street in the West End of London where he was introduced to Dennis Bovell who took him under his wing once he heard what he was capable of as a drummer.
He began session working for Matumbi towards the end of 1979. The first album I session worked on was called Matumbi, of which I am proud.
        
Bovell then introduced him to rock star Garland Jeffery's from the US,  he did two sessions for Garland one of which was a song called "We The People".  He continued work as a drummer and accompanied the likes of the Twinkle Brothers who were headed by lead singer Norman Grant, whilst completing this track he was introduced to Prince Lincoln and the Royal Rasses, who he played with to produce a song called "Whopping Good Vibrations".


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